James Clark is a staff reporter for RealtyWire, where he covers residential real estate, home sales, brokerage trends, seller strategy, marketing, home preparation, new construction, renovations, and the practical issues that affect buyers, sellers, agents, brokers, and property owners.
Before joining RealtyWire, James spent 15 years as a residential real estate agent in the Denver, Colorado metro area. During his real estate career, he worked with three different brokerage firms and focused heavily on representing home sellers, giving him firsthand experience with pricing strategy, listing preparation, negotiations, marketing, buyer behavior, and the challenges sellers face in changing market conditions.
James brings a practical, agent-level understanding of the real estate business to his reporting. His background gives him insight into real estate regulation, mortgage issues, sales trends, listing strategy, home staging, new construction, renovations, interior design, and the updates that can help improve a property's marketability and resale value.
His reporting focuses on making real estate news, trends, and market analysis useful for readers who want to better understand how the industry works at the ground level.
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Millrose Properties, the land-banking company spun off from Lennar, reported $9.7 billion in homesites under option and disclosed a role financing Dream Finders’ hostile pursuit of Beazer Homes.
Henderson Park and Lowe bought the 1 million-square-foot mall from Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, ending Westfield’s decades-long ownership of the South Bay property.
Park Slope, Brooklyn leads Redfin’s 2026 ranking of the hottest U.S. luxury neighborhoods, while AI-industry wealth helped push San Francisco’s Noe Valley into the No. 7 spot.
NAHB says AI data center developers are paying 30 to 50 times what homebuilders can afford for land in Northern Virginia and beyond, removing housing sites from the pipeline entirely.
The Federal Reserve’s July 2026 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey shows banks eased commercial real estate lending standards in the second quarter, while loan demand stayed largely flat.
PulteGroup is standing up a new Florida Panhandle Division and naming Taylor Larza to lead it, formalizing its push into the Bay County, Florida, market where it has rights to more than 1,300 homesites.
Greystone arranged a $105.8 million Freddie Mac refinancing for 476 apartments in El Cajon, California, on behalf of Apollo-owned Bridge Investment Group, as agency lenders keep backing stabilized multifamily assets.
Kelley Blue Book Homes, backed by True Footage’s TrueTracts appraisal technology, launched a free nationwide home valuation platform in 11 states Monday, targeting accuracy within 3% of final sale price.
Adwerx launched a Canva integration letting real estate agents import designs directly into ad campaigns without downloading or re-uploading files, available now at no additional cost.
Two Harbors Investment Corp.’s $11.30-a-share cash sale to CrossCountry Mortgage, which beat out a rival UWM bid, was delayed past its planned Aug. 3 closing pending one final state regulatory approval.
Spirit Investment Partners and Strategic Value Partners, financed by Oaktree Capital, acquired 895 units across two newly built Houston and Denton, Texas apartment communities from Resia.
Blackstone will pay roughly A$36 billion for HSBC’s Australian home loan book, the largest residential mortgage portfolio transaction on record, as HSBC retreats from Australian retail banking.
71% of Americans oppose data centers in their local area, Gallup finds, as New York enacts a statewide moratorium and county votes diverge from Georgia to Arkansas ahead of key primary elections.
Regency Centers lifted its 2026 FFO and same-property NOI guidance after a strong second quarter, with leasing spreads above 10% on renewals across its grocery-anchored shopping center portfolio.
CubeSmart’s second-quarter net income rose to $89.6 million even as same-store NOI dipped 0.7%. The self-storage REIT also unveiled a new joint venture with Heitman covering 15 stores valued at $197 million.
Granite Construction’s second-quarter revenue rose 29% to $1.455 billion and adjusted EBITDA climbed 22%, even as a debt-settlement charge produced a reported net loss. Data-center-related backlog tripled to $223 million.
Mayor Brandon Johnson joined developers to break ground on converting a 25-story office tower at 500 N. Michigan Ave. into 320 apartments, including 64 affordable units, in a $162 million project.
The Clarksville City Council approved industrial revenue bonds backing Serverfarm’s $6.6 billion data center campus, capping a financing process that drew community pushback over transparency.
A penthouse atop Manhattan’s landmarked Sohmer Piano Building sold for $10.147 million at Sotheby’s New York, headlining a two-day Concierge Auctions sale that drew more than $520 million in aggregate bids across eight properties.
Goldman Sachs’ Urban Investment Group is providing a $116 million construction loan toward a $269 million redevelopment of Parkside Commons, a 393-unit affordable housing complex on Syracuse’s East Side.
Amazon now expects to spend about $220 billion on capex in 2026 as AWS backlog hits $496 billion, underscoring how much of the AI boom is landing as physical data center construction in states like Indiana, Louisiana and Oregon.
Camden Property Trust sold 11 Southern California apartment communities totaling 3,620 units for about $1.625 billion, redeploying proceeds into debt paydown, share buybacks and Sunbelt acquisitions.
The Bureau of Reclamation’s final Environmental Impact Statement sets a new Colorado River operating framework through 2036, requiring Arizona, California and Nevada to share cuts of up to 3 million acre-feet as the river’s supply falls short of historical assumptions.
American Healthcare REIT (NYSE: AHR) has acquired a 200-unit senior living community in San Jose, Calif., for $102.75 million, according to The Registry Northern California Real Estate, adding a Silicon Valley asset to its growing senior housing portfolio.
About 5.8% of U.S. home listings were withdrawn from the market in April, tying December 2025 for the highest delisting rate since March 2020, according to Redfin. Atlanta’s reported rate reached 10.7%. Sellers are increasingly choosing to pull a listing rather than accept a weaker offer — a decision that quietly distorts the inventory figures … Read more
Lincoln Property Company says it has raised more than $2 billion in equity capital in 2026, led by a new $400 million discretionary program backed by family offices HF Capital and SGF Capital.
Koch Inc. is reportedly weighing a sale of data center developer Edged that could exceed $15 billion, according to a Bloomberg report, as Goldman Sachs gauges buyer interest amid an AI infrastructure investment boom.
NAREIM, the trade association for institutional real estate investment managers, named 25-year industry veteran Andy Walburger as its next CEO, succeeding Reesa Fischer effective Aug. 17.
AMD will secure more than 500 megawatts of U.S. data center capacity from Core Scientific starting in 2027, in a warrant-based infrastructure deal that could expand to 2.5 gigawatts across the company’s seven-state footprint.
Florida’s homebuilding permit activity fell 7% through the first half of 2026, extending a slowdown that began last year, though several counties bucked the statewide trend with double-digit gains.
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